Virgo Season
August 22, 2024, 10:55am ET / 10:55pm AWST
Virgo Season Grounding Meditation
Nourish Your Body
After the exuberant engagement of Leo season, Virgo returns the focus to practicality, productivity, and helpfulness. Coinciding with cooling temperatures and the harvest, Virgo seasons indicates a time to make preparations and establish supportive routines. In the Southern Hemisphere, it does the same, though marks the transition from winter to spring. In any case, Virgo reflects the need to nourish your body in the interest of sustaining your energy level for the hard work ahead.
Your Eating Habits
One way or another, all three Earth signs – Virgo, Taurus, and Capricorn – pertain to the substance and processes of the physical body. Since Virgo refers to the digestive tract and its connection to the nervous system, this is an opportune time to scrutinize your eating habits. This includes not just what and when you eat, but your state of mind during meals. Tracking how grounded you feel after eating across the course of your day provides a useful understanding. You may even want to keep a food journal for the next few weeks to compare your perception to your reality. Rather than criticizing or correcting yourself, approach this analysis with the desire to be of service without compromising your health.
Virgo Season Overall
The Sun entering Virgo facilitates a shift to a realistic mindset about the immediate tasks ahead. The main stressor during Virgo season involves a conflict between the desire to expand in one realm while accepting limits in another. Separate worthwhile areas of learning and growth from dead ends and dogma by sitting still enough to listen to your own voice and evaluating your physical energy. Consider your ability to take in what people seem to be asking for in your important relationships. Set aside mental falsehoods of control and instead apply your keen insight to understand your own inner state.
At the Virgo New Moon, set an intention to stabilize the routines that impact your metabolism, especially eating, exercising, and sleeping. Mercury squares Uranus for the third time, demanding that you pay attention to what motivates or inspires you, whether through anxiety or excitement. Find a way to incorporate games, fun, and adventure into your daily exercise and nutrition. The struggle between emotional limits and the desire to increase your network seesaws in the background. Welcome a gift of calm resourcefulness that expands your reach more effectively than running around trying to prove yourself.
At the Pisces Lunar Eclipse on September 17, soften your scrutiny to refocus on your less tangible spiritual life. That’s not to say forget about bodily concerns, but rather let go of personal minutiae in favor of seeing the bigger picture. Many are suffering, unable to meet their basic eating, sleeping, or security needs. Keep doing the work of anchoring your own mental health which affects the collective experience whether you can see that or not. As Virgo season comes to close, adopt a curious, non-judgmental attitude to walk the path to empowerment. The Sun enters inclusive Libra on September 22.
Horoscopes for Virgo Season
During Virgo season, focus on nourishing your body and settling your nervous system with an eye toward finding a sustainable and realistic energy level. Use your Rising (or Sun) sign, to read what part of your life needs this gentle scrutiny the most.
Aries: Pay attention to the daily habits that make up your lifestyle. Respect the cumulative effects of your stress-relieving activities and lean into the ones that support your energy level.
Taurus: Steer away from perfectionism and organize your time to make room for unbridled creative expression. Take risks and play to release undue stress on your nervous system.
Gemini: Choose habits that support your emotional foundation. Ask yourself what activities ground and support you in maintaining an even keel despite changing moods.
Cancer: Commit to clear communication in all forms. Consider the messages you need to convey that support your effectiveness as well as your ability to remain calm and nonjudgmental.
Leo: Check in with the way you value yourself, including noticing negative self-criticism that dysregulates your nervous system. Recognize your work ethic that supports yourself and others.
Virgo: Make nourishing your body and calming your nervous system your top priority. Develop a daily practice of checking in with yourself before engaging with your partners in life.
Libra: See how your commitment to daily practices soothes and calms your nervous system. Observe the link between the food you eat and your connection to the diverse web of life.
Scorpio: Notice your ability to enter social and community settings with calmness. Take steps to eat well and ground yourself mentally before moving into the public sphere.
Sagittarius: Be sure to calm and ground yourself before each workday. Decide what structure and sustenance helps you maintain an effective and productive energy level.
Capricorn: Recognize how a daily practice of calming your mind supports your overall worldview. Eat and rest in a way that supports your receptivity, energy level, and efficiency.
Aquarius: Practice self-care by paying attention to your body’s messages when in the presence of others’ emotional issues. Eat, rest, and exercise in a way that supports healthy boundaries.
Pisces: Employ calming practices and nourishing meals that impact your partnerships in a positive way. Let these interactions help you determine your level of needed self-care.
